The Kingdom Of God On Earth

"For My house will be called a

house of prayer for all the peoples."

Isaiah 56:7

The light of God is falling

Upon life's common way;

The Master's voice still calling,

"Come walk with Me today."

No duty can seem lowly

To him who lives with Thee,

And all of life grows holy,

O Christ of Galilee!

The Sea of Galilee

Israel

Who shares his life's pure pleasures,

And walks the honest road;

Who trades with heaping measures,

And lift's his brother's load,

Who turns the wrong down bluntly,

And lends the right a hand,

He dwells in God's own country,

He tills the Holy Land.

Where human lives are thronging

In toil and pain and sin,

While cloistered hearts are longing

To bring the Kingdom in,

O Christ, the Elder Brother,

Of proud and beaten men,

When they have found each other,

Thy Kingdom will come then!

Thy ransom host in glory,

All souls that sin and pray,

Turn towards the cross that bore Thee:

"Behold the Man!" they say.

And while Thy Church is pleading

For all who would do good,

We hear Thy true voice leading

Our song of brotherhood.

"...And a little child shall lead them."

Isaiah 11:6

"The Kingdom Of God On Earth"

Reverend Louis F. Benson

(1910)

Arranged from J. Michael Haydn

In B. Jacob's "National Psalmody"

(1819)